CHIANG RAI – The Rice Department plans a pension of about 4,000 baht per month for Thai rice growers after their retirement, on the condition they...
KHON KAEN – Resentment toward Thailand’s latest military coup is palpable in the Isaan region of northeastern Thailand, reinforcing a long-standing sense of ethnic separateness among...
Tourists chat in front of a billboard display of high-speed trains at Hua Lamphong railway station in Bangkok last March. BANGKOK – Thailand’s Constitutional Court...
CHIANG RAI – A group of farmers have showed their support for the government in finding finance for the struggling rice pledging program. Finance Minister...
BANGKOK -Thailand’s opposition demonstrators and Farmers have surrounded government offices – including a compound used as a temporary headquarters by the prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra...
BANGKOK – Thai officials said they will hold elections in late April for districts where parliamentary voting was disrupted by anti-government activists on February 2....
CHIANG RAI – Since he left Bangkok and returned to his farming-family roots in the northern Thai city of Chiang Rai, documentary-maker Uruphong Raksasad has...
BANGKOK – China has cancelled a deal to buy 1.2 million tons of Thai rice after Thailand’s anti-corruption agency launched investigations into a state rice-buying...
BANGKOK – Bangkok Bank president Kosit Punpiumrat says that the bank would not be joining the loan auction to raise fund for the government’s rice-pledging scheme....
BANGKOK – Elections in Thailand passed off peacefully on Sunday but the country was no nearer to ending its intractable political conflict, with the government...
KHON KAEN – As election day approaches in Thailand, supporters of prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra vow to take to the barricades in her defence. Clad in...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s central bank is expected to cut interest rates at its meeting Wednesday as political unrest continues to engulf the exporter of automobiles...
BANGKOK – Farmers are up in arms against the government’s failure to pay for their rice while employees of a state bank dressed in black...
BANGKOK – It has gone quiet in Bangkok, as the people who have been trying to overthrow the government tidy up the debris that litters...
PHUKET – Eight months ago, Jeff Johns and girlfriend Marina Dominguez made a decision that would change their lives forever. They packed up their belongings,...
BANGKOK – Thailand is part of the overall emerging markets bubble that I have been warning about in recent years, along with Indonesia, Malaysia and...
BANGKOK – Thailand has decided to continue its costly rice program, but critics are questioning how the government will find the money to pay for...
BANGKOK – Thailand may need to raise new funds for a rice buying scheme in the crop year from October as it has fallen behind...
BANGKOK – An incentive program for first-time car buyers in Thailand has backfired with more than 100,000 indebted consumers defaulting, leaving the big global manufacturers...
THAILAND SOUTH – Strung along the coast of southern Thailand is a line of small fishing towns, nestled between the rugged beauty of the Tanaosri...